Winners of 52nd National Jewish Book Awards

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (JTA) — The following is a complete list of the 2002 winners of the National Jewish Book Awards. The 52nd annual awards will be presented by the Jewish Book Council on October 30th in New York at the Center for Jewish History. FICTION:“Everything Is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin)NON-FICTION:“Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary” David Lieber and Jules Harlow eds. (Jewish Publication Society)CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: “Forged in Freedom” by Norman Finklestein (Jewish Publication Society)AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR“The Rebbe’s Daughter” by Malkah Shapiro, translated by Nehemia Polen (Jewish Publication Society)CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK:“The Littlest Pair” by Sylvia Rouss (Pitspopany Press)EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES:“Stalin’s Secret Pogrom” Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir Naumov eds. (Yale University Press)EDUCATION:“Reclaiming Goodness” by Hanan Alexander (University of Notre Dame Press)HISTORY:“Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews — A History” by James Carroll (Houghton Mifflin)HOLOCAUST:“Salvaged Pages” by Alexandra Zapruder (Yale University Press)JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS:“Jazz Age Jews” by Michael Alexander (Princeton University Press)REFERENCE:“The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life, Before and During the Holocaust, 3 Volumes” Shmuel Spector, Editor in Chief and Geoffrey Wigoder, Consulting Editor (New York University Press)SCHOLARSHIP:“Imperialism and Jewish Society” by Seth Schwartz (Princeton University Press)SEPHARDIC-ASHKENAZIC CULTURE:“The Jewish Cultural Tapestry” by Steven M. Lowenstein (Oxford University Press)SEPHARDIC STUDIES:“The Book of Tahkemoni,” by Judah Alharizi (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)THOUGHT:“When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son” by Samuel Heilman (University of California Press)YIDDISH:“Yiddish: A Nation of Words” by Miriam Weinstein (Steerforth Press)